Did I do Corrupted Monk properly?

[Revalopod]

It feels like I was doing something wrong, because every attack only took away 1 millimetre of its vitality bar and some attacks did 0. It took a couple hours to do finally beat it and it didn't really feel satisfying. It was more of a slog, a 10 minute endurance test. And then I didn't even get an achievement for all that :(
either the boss sucksssssss or I missed something.
ps. I did try all prosthetic tools and they did nothing, I tried confetti and that did nothing.

[yds]

I find it hard to believe that divine confetti didn't help at all. It greatly increases damage against apparition enemies.

Could you be underleveled? What's your attack power? Also, which Corrupted Monk it was? The first one?

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by yds:

I find it hard to believe that divine confetti didn't help at all. It greatly increases damage against apparition enemies.

Could you be underleveled? What's your attack power? Also, which Corrupted Monk it was? The first one?

My attack power is 5. (edit: it's 5 after beating the boss so it would've been 4) It's the corrupt monk in the mibu village and then after beating it you get the stone thingy.
perhaps confetti did help, but the damage was already so low that the bonus damage was negligible and it didn't look like it helped in the slightest.

it was basically like trying to beat Yhorm without the Storm Ruler. Not very exciting...

[Mark92wtf]

Corrupted monk uses her clothes as a shield (if you notice, her left arm is always in front to protect herself from damage).
To prevent this from happening the axe is a decent prosthetic, allowing you to do big damage after the stab attack (mikiri counter the stab then use the axe).
It is also possible to use snap seed to deal a big chunck of damage and stagger her a bit.
Some attack offer a bit of opening to deal some extra damage, for examples when she does the swipe instead of double jumping on her head you can hit her twice in the air and possibly once when you land.
In general just remember her left arm acts a shield, it is possible to dodge to the side instead of deflecting to get behind her and deal damage without using items and prostethic.

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by Mark92wtf:

Corrupted monk uses her clothes as a shield (if you notice, her left arm is always in front to protect herself from damage).
To prevent this from happening the axe is a decent prosthetic, allowing you to do big damage after the stab attack (mikiri counter the stab then use the axe).
It is also possible to use snap seed to deal a big chunck of damage and stagger her a bit.
Some attack offer a bit of opening to deal some extra damage, for examples when she does the swipe instead of double jumping on her head you can hit her twice in the air and possibly once when you land.
In general just remember her left arm acts a shield, it is possible to dodge to the side instead of deflecting to get behind her and deal damage without using items and prostethic.

Nice, I'll remember that for next time. I didn't think to try snap seeds. i thought it was an apparition not an illusion.

[L9 dorothea]

Originally posted by Revalopod:

Originally posted by Mark92wtf:

Corrupted monk uses her clothes as a shield (if you notice, her left arm is always in front to protect herself from damage).
To prevent this from happening the axe is a decent prosthetic, allowing you to do big damage after the stab attack (mikiri counter the stab then use the axe).
It is also possible to use snap seed to deal a big chunck of damage and stagger her a bit.
Some attack offer a bit of opening to deal some extra damage, for examples when she does the swipe instead of double jumping on her head you can hit her twice in the air and possibly once when you land.
In general just remember her left arm acts a shield, it is possible to dodge to the side instead of deflecting to get behind her and deal damage without using items and prostethic.

Nice, I'll remember that for next time. I didn't think to try snap seeds. i thought it was an apparition not an illusion.

so did i. why wouldnt it be a ghost in a zombie village

[Vortiene]

Fight all the bosses before the point you are supposed to fight each boss if you want the boss you are currently on to be "fair" difficulty instead of "insane" difficulty. In your case, that means:
-Gyoubu Oniwa
-Lady Butterfly
-Genichiro Ashina
-Folding Screen Monkeys
-Guardian Ape
-Headless Ape

If you defeated all of these before fighting phantom corrupted monk, you would have 7 attack stat. If you skipped headless ape, you will have 6. So go fight the guardian ape, then come back.

Once you have enough attack, make sure to get all the prayer beads you can get up until that point.

NOW, you are ready to fight corrupted monk and have the maximum attack and defense prior to this boss (which you should ALWAYS have because it is the only way for the game to be reasonable in difficulty instead of requiring you to learn the boss perfectly).

Here's what to do:
1. Bring 10 fistful of ashes and 10 snap seeds
2. Use a fistful of ash right in front of the monk, this will flinch them and give you time for exactly 2 normal sword strikes. Immediately throw another fistful of ash after those two strikes, repeat until you have no ash left. Then do the same with Snap Seeds until they stop working. If the monk isn't dead yet, hit her till she dies. Done.

[tomw]

Divine confetti stacks with sugar effect, try confetti + ako / yashariku next time you feel you're dealing little damage ( I mean actually damaging the enemy, not being blocked or deflected).

The game also hints you in loading screen that try to reduce enemies vitality if their posture recover very fast. The corrupted monk in mibu village will have a very slow posture recovery after its vitality drop to ~50%.

You can also play the game in dark soul style where you back off when (mini-)bosses doing combo attacks (in this case, the spinning / thrusting attacks) and then dash attack them in their recovery time to reduce vitality.

[lian]

Originally posted by Mark92wtf:

Corrupted monk uses her clothes as a shield (if you notice, her left arm is always in front to protect herself from damage).
To prevent this from happening the axe is a decent prosthetic, allowing you to do big damage after the stab attack (mikiri counter the stab then use the axe).
It is also possible to use snap seed to deal a big chunck of damage and stagger her a bit.
Some attack offer a bit of opening to deal some extra damage, for examples when she does the swipe instead of double jumping on her head you can hit her twice in the air and possibly once when you land.
In general just remember her left arm acts a shield, it is possible to dodge to the side instead of deflecting to get behind her and deal damage without using items and prostethic.

Actually divine Sakura dance works even better

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by Vortiene:

Fight all the bosses before the point you are supposed to fight each boss if you want the boss you are currently on to be "fair" difficulty instead of "insane" difficulty. In your case, that means:
-Gyoubu Oniwa
-Lady Butterfly
-Genichiro Ashina
-Folding Screen Monkeys
-Guardian Ape
-Headless Ape

If you defeated all of these before fighting phantom corrupted monk, you would have 7 attack stat. If you skipped headless ape, you will have 6. So go fight the guardian ape, then come back.

Once you have enough attack, make sure to get all the prayer beads you can get up until that point.

NOW, you are ready to fight corrupted monk and have the maximum attack and defense prior to this boss (which you should ALWAYS have because it is the only way for the game to be reasonable in difficulty instead of requiring you to learn the boss perfectly).

Here's what to do:
1. Bring 10 fistful of ashes and 10 snap seeds
2. Use a fistful of ash right in front of the monk, this will flinch them and give you time for exactly 2 normal sword strikes. Immediately throw another fistful of ash after those two strikes, repeat until you have no ash left. Then do the same with Snap Seeds until they stop working. If the monk isn't dead yet, hit her till she dies. Done.

I only had 4 attack power for the boss. I had only beaten Gyoubu Oniwa, Lady Butterfly and Genichiro Ashina prior.
How was I suppose to know which order to do the bosses in? I don't even know where any of the monkey bosses are.

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by kkiskk:

Divine confetti stacks with sugar effect, try confetti + ako / yashariku next time you feel you're dealing little damage ( I mean actually damaging the enemy, not being blocked or deflected).

The game also hints you in loading screen that try to reduce enemies vitality if their posture recover very fast. The corrupted monk in mibu village will have a very slow posture recovery after its vitality drop to ~50%.

You can also play the game in dark soul style where you back off when (mini-)bosses doing combo attacks (in this case, the spinning / thrusting attacks) and then dash attack them in their recovery time to reduce vitality.

That's what I did, but getting it down to 50% vitality was a gruelling marathon that took many dozens of attempts. The hits that actually did damage barely budged the health bar.
And then it was another gruelling marathon of perfectly parrying every one of its attacks for aaaaaaaages until it's posture finally depleted.

[MundM]

She's a sponge, but a fun one. You'll meet her again.

[Revalopod]

Originally posted by MundM:

She's a sponge, but a fun one. You'll meet her again.

As a matter of fact I'm up to it right now and uh oh there's 3 health pips

[Mark92wtf]

Originally posted by Revalopod:

Originally posted by MundM:

She's a sponge, but a fun one. You'll meet her again.

As a matter of fact I'm up to it right now and uh oh there's 3 health pips :chuchelwow:

The second phase can be skipped if you stealth attack from the tree. Look up a video if you want to see how to do it, very easy trick

[MundM]

Originally posted by Revalopod:

Originally posted by MundM:

She's a sponge, but a fun one. You'll meet her again.

As a matter of fact I'm up to it right now and uh oh there's 3 health pips :chuchelwow:

Yep, but don't worry, you just need to know her weakness... and there's a trick for her second phase... you might figure it out, preservere to beat her without the tricks, or look it up if you get frustrated... either way, enjoy!